From Richard Flint #1

Glenn Graves002, originally uploaded by bucklesw1. BUCKLES, IT'S BEEN A LONG WHILE SINCE I'VE HAD TIME TO SEND SOME MATERIAL TO YOU BUT I REMEMBERED JERRY DIGNEY'S QUESTION ABOUT GLENN GRAVES AND HAD WANTED TO SEND ALONG AN INTERESTING PHOTO AND SOME DATA I HAD. WITH THE SNOW STORMS HERE IN BALTIMORE, I'VE HAD A LITTLE EXTRA TIME (BELIEVE ME, LOTS OF "WHITE TOPS" HERE WITH ALL THE SNOW ATOP CARS, TREES, HOUSES, ETC. Glenn Graves as boxer in the Ringling backyard, 1922 On the first of this year, on postings about Circus World park, Jerry Digney asked about Glenn Graves and his wife Jean for they had all shared a large office trailer near the elephant barn along with Chappie Fox. Glenn’s wife, Jean Kinsey Graf, came from a tent rep show background since she was the daughter of Harry & Madge (Kinsey) Graf of the Madge Kinsey Players. She died in Orlando on Dec 31, 1997, age 74-1/2. Glenn Graves was born Dec 15, 1918, and died March 3, 1992, predeceasing his wife. Shown here is a photo of young Glenn Graves as a boxer that was taken on the Ringling show in 1922. It is an appropriate pose since this was a year when boxing was undergoing a tremendous surge in popularity: on April 11 a boxing match in Pittsburgh became the first sporting event ever broadcast on radio and a month later, on May 23, Gene Tunney suffered his only professional boxing defeat (he later became famous for twice defeating Jack Dempsey); it was also the year that the The Ring, the “Bible of Boxing,” began publication. Glenn’s mother, Judy, had been with the Boris Fritkin Russian dance troupe and later in the 1950s helped with the Sailor Circus wardrobe. Dick Flint Baltimore